On 2014-05-24, Nils R <m...@hxgn.net> wrote:
> Jona Joachim schrieb am 24.05.2014 12:06:
>
>> On 2014-05-24, Nils R <m...@hxgn.net> wrote:
>>> Hi misc@,
>>>
>>> i'm currently trying to find an easy way to copy the pictures i made
>>> with my android phone to my openbsd -current machine.  To make things
>>> easy, i installed the gnome, gnome-extras and toad (like advised in 
>>> [1].)
>>>
>>> My usb sticks mount fine, but the android phone is only seen by the 
>>> system, but not mounted by toad in any way (neither when i tell it 
>>> to connect over MTP, nor over PTP.)  Relevant snippet from dmesg:
>>>
>>>     ugen0 at uhub2 port 2 "motorola XT1032" rev 2.00/2.28 addr 2
>>>
>>> mtp-detect finds the device, the output of this command is attached.
>>> So far i haven't tried to sync files over the command line, and would
>>> like to avoid this.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make it work with toad, or do i have to rely on file 
>>> sync via commadline/sftp or something like that?
>> 
>> MTP support is scarce in OpenBSD for the moment.
>> If your phone supports USB mass storage mode then you should probably
>> use that. If not, you can try jmtpfs from the openbsd-wip ports:
>> https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/sysutils/jmtpfs
>> It mounts the MTP filesystem with fuse(4). However it is quite unstable
>> for me.
>> If you only want to copy your pictures, the most reliable way is to use
>> graphics/gphoto2 (for example gphoto2 --get-all-files).
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Jona
>> 
>
> Hi Jona,
>
> thanks, i'll try that out as well.  Pictures are the most important thing,
> but access to my videos, music and the filesystem in general (to sync my 
> flash cards from mnemosyne) would be very nice, too.  To my understanding,
> there is no (working) bluetooth support on openbsd either yet.

Bluetooth support existed but was removed because the code was
unmaintained and interest was lacking.
gphoto2 copies videos and maybe audio (at least there is a
--get-all-audio-data option)

Best regards,
Jona

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